ICE data: 36,000 illegals with criminal convictions, including homicide, were released during deportation proceedings

posted at 4:01 pm on May 12, 2014 by Allahpundit

A preemptive strike on DHS from the Center for Immigration Studies, designed to make Obama’s upcoming “relaxation” of U.S. deportation procedures as politically painful as possible. He’s desperate to pander to his base, which is impatient after waiting more than five years for amnesty and has now convinced itself based on cooked numbers that he’s some sort of crazed border hawk. That’s where the “relaxation” comes in — and that’s the beauty of CIS’s otherwise grim data, which shows just how relaxed the system already is. Maybe O will consider it a blessing in disguise, though. What true amnesty fan wouldn’t be happy to learn that illegals with a total of 15,000+ DUI convictions between them were free last year to get back behind the wheel on American roads?

Note that these 36,000 offenders are separate from the 68,000 illegals with criminal records who were also released last year and whom CIS reported on back in March. The latter group consists of people whom ICE “encountered” (often in jails) but didn’t seek to remove; the former group is composed of people they did try to remove with formal deportation proceedings but who were released on bond or via some other mechanism while the proceedings played out. How many of them didn’t show up to their next hearing? Good question. We don’t know because ICE hasn’t said.

The document reveals that the 36,007 convicted criminal aliens freed from ICE custody in many instances had multiple convictions. Among them, the 36,007 had nearly 88,000 convictions, including:

193 homicide convictions (including one willful killing of a public official with gun)

426 sexual assault convictions

303 kidnapping convictions

1,075 aggravated assault convictions

1,160 stolen vehicle convictions

9,187 dangerous drug convictions

16,070 drunk or drugged driving convictions

303 flight escape convictions…

Separate information obtained by the Center for Immigration Studies reveals that the vast majority of these releases were discretionary, or even contrary to the requirements of various provisions of the Immigration and Nationality Act. Only a small share of these criminal aliens (fewer than 3,000) were released in accordance with a 2001 Supreme Court decision, Zadvydas v. Davis, which prevents ICE from indefinitely detaining certain aliens whose countries will not accept them back. (See “Reining in Zadvydas v. Davis”.) Another small number may have been offered parole or legal status, either in exchange for their cooperation with ICE or another law enforcement agency in connection with a criminal prosecution, or because of another compelling public interest.

The combined number of convictions for “domestic violence” and “sex offenses” was north of 2,000. And CIS notes that Obama’s 2012 executive amnesty for DREAMers may have enabled some of it, since it’s known that some illegals have claimed they qualify for relief under it and were released before their claim was even checked out. How many? That’s another number that ICE won’t give us.

If you want a taste of just how perilous the big deportation “relaxation” is for the White House, read this BuzzFeed piece from last week about Chuck Schumer — yes, that Chuck Schumer — encouraging the White House to take its time in issuing the order. That’s not because Schumer cares particularly that illegals with more than 220 convictions for kidnappings between them were released during deportation proceedings last year; it’s because he’s afraid that softening up deportation even further right now might be the final straw politically for the House GOP and cause them to abandon amnesty for the rest of the year. Schumer wants the White House to lie low and give Boehner until August (i.e. after the GOP primaries are over) to try to make something happen. If the House is still deadlocked then, Obama can go ahead and issue his order on deportations. Can’t wait to see what numbers CIS is planning to publish that month.

Counting both Active Duty and 10 years as a civilian with over 30 combined years in DOD, I would never ever sign my name to a piece of paper releasing a convicted criminal without a signed order from a Judge or a very high up person in my COC. Never happen.

But none of that will happen, Boehner reiterated, until President Obama builds back trust with Republicans in Congress.

And in that respect, little has changed in the months since the Speaker released a set of policy principles to his conference only to have his members resist his push to move forward with actual immigration legislation.

“We’re at a point where my colleagues don’t trust that the president will implement the law the way we would see it passed,” Boehner said Monday. “So I’ve put the ball back in the president’s court. He’s going to do something to demonstrate some level of trustworthiness.”

This is a bit off topic, but since immigration was a big issue in the NC2 primary (Renee Ellmers), I thought I would put this here:

BREAKING NEWS: Keith Crisco, who was battling Clay Aiken for the Democratic nomination in the 2nd Congressional District, died Monday after falling at his Randolph County home, according to Crisco’s company, Asheboro Elastics.
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Boy, you never know when your time is up! I guess this means Aiken will be the nominee, though they had not finished the official tally.

Oh, but they’re DREAMERS, like the John Lennon song. “Imagine there’s no countries.” Open borders! Yeah, who’da thunk the majority of violent crime would be committed by minority men under 30 yo? There’s a reason Mexico told them to take a hike El Norte and bother the gringos who stole their land.

Is there anybody who still wonders whose side this administration is on??

Let’s see. They want to take guns from law abiding Americans who are constitutionally protected to bear arms. They’re arming the IRS, in charge of our healthcare, DHS, and name your federal agency, and they are buying up ammo. They are sucking up to Muslim extremists who are waging jihad against us. They subsidize abortion. And they are importing criminals from who knows wear to terrorize the populace.

Oh, and to those who wonder how Obama sets all the records on deportations: he just changed the definitions.

Now anyone who is turned away at the border is counted as “deported.” That was never the case before, but it lets Obama claim to deport more than ever while setting free all the actual potential deportees.

Any number from the Obama Administration is a lie, as Tim Geithner’s new book notes.

California is the most difficult border to cross. Last time I drove on Interstate 10 from Arizona to California, there were at least 30 ICE vehicles parked at the state line. I didn’t see any in the California to Arizona direction.

There’s a reason Mexico told them to take a hike El Norte and bother the gringos who stole their land.

ezspirit on May 12, 2014 at 4:46 PM

I agree, but for the “reconquesta” types, it was the Spanish who conquered the land. Thats why they speak Spanish and not the native languages of Mexico..Aztec, Toltec, etc.
“Remenber the Alamo”..I think we were fighting with (kinda..sorta) the indigenous people against the Spanish conquerors.

I’ll admit, as soon as I hear the word “amnesty” I’m eyes slammed shut, fingers in my ears, and screaming ‘nah, nah, nah, nah’ -refusing to even address it. I loathe John Boehner for continually floating it. But here’s my question: what is the benefit to amnesty? One cogent benefit?

I’ve heard about the living in the shadows claim. I drove by at least three Home Depots between Maryland’s Montgomery County and Virginia’s Fairfax County today. Let me tell you, they aren’t living in the shadows. They’re out there and everyone knows where to find them. The neighborhoods. The streets. The employers. You can’t throw a dead cat without hitting an illegal in the 50 miles between Alexandria and Germantown.

I’ve heard some argument from the Chamber of Commerce, though I can’t articulate it. It seems to me that if you support maximum profits for businesses, making them pay over the table rather than under it, is not conducive to the message.

Certainly the vast majority of illegals are at or near the federal poverty level; giving them a green card is not going to make them more valuable. So revenues aren’t likely to rise; instead, we’re more likely to have to raise taxes to cover the increased welfare costs for the few who do not currently benefit from people working someplace other than the Depot parking lot.

So I just don’t get it. I have no idea why the left supports this; seems like it’s nothing more than cutting off their nose to spite their face. Maybe someone could explain it to me.

Phoenix Police have filed manslaughter charges against a suspect already in custody on drug and immigration violations that they believe struck and killed an officer processing a DUI arrest.

Jesus Cabrera Molina, 24, has admitted he was drunk and high on cocaine the night his SUV struck and killed Officer Daryl Raetz, but he denies he was behind the wheel, reports Phoenix New Times.

Raetz, 29, was struck at about 3:30 a.m. on May 19, at 51st and Cambridge avenues. The driver fled the scene, and Surprise Police officers stopped an Expedition matching the description of the vehicle that struck the officer.

When he was arrested, Cabrera Molina had a small bag of cocaine in his pocket. Federal immigration officials also issued a detainer to take custody of Cabrera Molina because they said he is in the country illegally and skipped a court date after posting a $5,000 bond in 2012, reports the Arizona Republic.

So I just don’t get it. I have no idea why the left supports this; seems like it’s nothing more than cutting off their nose to spite their face. Maybe someone could explain it to me.

BKeyser on May 12, 2014 at 5:35 PM

The left supports amnesty because the left wants to stay in power, and amnesty means more votes for Democrats.

The left knows the vast majority of illegal aliens are low-skill, low-education types who are likely to become welfare dependents; for the left, that’s a good thing. Welfare dependents overwhelmingly vote for Democrats, to keep the welfare checks coming.

The left does not care that legalizing millions of new welfare dependents, and importing millions more of their relatives, will strain already overburdened entitlement programs. All the left cares about is staying in power, so that they can keep funneling billions of taxpayer dollars into the bank accounts of their corrupt cronies (e.g., unions, “community organizing” groups like ACORN, “green” energy scammers, etc.).

1. Pull all troops from Afghanistan and Iraq
2. Post them on the border
3. Adopt Mexico’s immigration policy; meaning shoot the sumbinches as they cross
4. Throw employers hiring illegals in the gulag for 5 years
5. Deny all illegals any welfare, healthcare, schooling, or any other taxpayer funded benefit
6. Eject every scummy illegal you can find right back to the craphole they came from

Hill 60
I’m guessing if lawsuits were brought in cases like these against everyone who allowed the perpetrators to enter/remain in the US, the border would be closed very quickly. And I mean everyone from whoever orders police officers to not check legal status to those who employ them to the guy who drives the pick up that gets the illegals from Home Depot to every politician. Every crime listed above was PREVENTABLE.

So I just don’t get it. I have no idea why the left supports this; seems like it’s nothing more than cutting off their nose to spite their face. Maybe someone could explain it to me.

BKeyser

Wait…what? Since when has the left had a problem with raising taxes or expanding welfare, lol? Maybe you meant to say right instead of left. Not that the right has a problem with those two things either, but using “right” makes more sense, at least theoretically.

They turn all of these animals loose on us AND then take our guns away from us, I think Obama and company want YOU to be a victim, that way….YOU’LL demand SOMETHING be done….and he can then call for marshal law, and become KING. simple isn’t it?

Would someone here who supports “immigration-reform-pathway-to-citizenship” exactly what incentive the post-passage, explosively-growing fiat “Latino vote” have to vote Republican ongoing?

The GOP leadership de facto position is that the Latino vote will be ever so grateful to the GOP for immigration reform that they will vote Republican in significant numbers.. ongoing.. forever. Live happily ever after.

That’s insane. Either the GOP plans to pull the Republican party to center-center-left (allow the Democrats to go full-hard-left) or they are rock stupid.

What am I missing?

Bear in mind, I live in CA, dead center of Democrat / Latino-vote politics universe. The state where the GOP is stick-a-fork-in-it dead. The state where the middle-class has no part in politician’s plan for the future.